A 30-year-old man has been released on bail after being arrested by police investigating phone hacking at the News of the World.

Article: Belfast City Council pulled funding of about Â£1,000, some of which was to be used for a children's fun day at Sandy Row on Tuesday.
One of the organisers said local people had been told the council had expressed concerns about the height of the nearby bonfire.
The council said discussions were ongoing in relation to the funding.
Sandy Row's children's fun day and bonfire celebrations have been taking place on the eve of the annual Twelfth of July commemorations, which mark the victory of William III at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
The bonfire, that contains hundreds of wooden pallets, is in a car park near a hotel.
One of the organisers of the street party, John Cameron, said he believed the bonfire builders had complied with the council's policies.
He added that there was a lot of disappointment in the area that the council had pulled its support for a children's party at such short notice - but that the event had gone ahead with the support of local businesses.
"Children don't understand that, so the community has got together, along with local businesses, and they have managed to pull together a fun day," he said.
"It's a real tribute to the people of Sandy Row to make sure that it goes ahead."
An MLA for the area, Christopher Stalford, was among those who criticised the council's move and is seeking an explanation.
In a letter to council officials, the DUP MP said Sandy Row residents were "absolutely aghast at the decision that has been taken and feel very saddened and offended".
Mr Stalford asked: "If the issue is related to the bonfire in Sandy Row, why is the event which is held hundreds of yards away being penalised?"
Mr Cameron said the Sandy Row bonfire had been in the news for weeks and those responsible for building it had tried to abide by the advice of the council.
The police and the council are holding separate investigations into the alleged theft of hundreds of wooden pallets that had been placed in storage on council-controlled land in advance of Eleventh Night bonfires.
Mr Cameron said...

Summary: A loyalist community in Belfast has expressed anger that council funding has been withheld for a street party.
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Article: This year its near neighbour, Newcastle, is aiming to come hot on its heels, and also finish finish its three counts before midnight.
Previously, its results came in at about 04:00 BST, described as "not great for a core city".
It is hoped a new, larger venue, and an electronic system will aid the process.
A Newcastle City Council spokesman said: "We just want to be as effective as a core city should be.
"It's not like we're bringing ballot boxes in from remote regions, so we've streamlined our systems to bring them up to date."
The main difference is the location, with the count taking place at Northumbria University's Sport Central.
"Historically it's always been at the Civic Centre, where space has been quite constrained," the spokesman said.
"It looks big but there's not much space to move around.
"The move means we can operate three counts simultaneously instead of just one at a time, and use more staff which will be much more effective.
"Students will be running in with the 128 ballot boxes, and we have a new electronic system to count them in, because it's not just about speed but also accuracy."
The cost of hiring the Sport Central venue will be offset by not having to do two separate counts.
Sunderland began its run of first declarations in 1992, when officials decided to mark its new city status by delivering results on polling day.
The process is now down to a fine art, with schoolchildren passing ballot boxes down the line and bank tellers counting the votes.
Lighter paper with a weight of 80g per sq m, rather than 100g, is used for the ballot papers, making them easier to handle, and voters are instructed to fold them only once, from north to south.
For the past two general elections the council has declared its three result before midnight, and this year Newcastle is hoping to do the same.
However, while it might be taking a leaf out of its rival's book, Newcastle's first result is not expected until an hour after Sunderland's.
In addition, both councils have categorically dismissed any idea of...

Summary: For the past five general elections the counting team at Sunderland has been the first to declare, with a result less than an hour after polls close.
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Article: The firm said the money will keep its balance sheet steady as it ramps up manufacturing of its newest car.
Tesla aims to make 5,000 of its mass market Model 3 a week by the end of this year.
It has estimated it is already spending about $100m a week to hit that target.
On 4 August Tesla said was looking to raise $1.5bn by selling bonds, but said on Friday it now expected to raise $1.77bn from the sale.
The fundraising is limited to major institutions and not private investors.
Junk bonds are ones that pay a higher yield than normal bonds (5.3% in Tesla's case), but also carry a higher risk of not being  paid back.  The bonds are set to be repaid in 2025.
Analysts said Tesla's ability to raise more than $1.5bn indicated an appetite for risk among investors, as low interest rates have limited returns in many other types of investments. High stock market valuations have also made it harder to make a profit.
"Without the proceeds from the note offering, Tesla's liquidity position would be stressed," analysts at Moody's said, warning of risks to potential investors.
Tesla had about $3bn in cash at the end of June, but it spent more than $2bn in the most recent quarter.
The company founded by Elon Musk has frequently turned to investors to overcome persistent operating losses.
Tesla plans to eventually make more than 500,000 of the new Model 3 cars a year at its Fremont factory - or about 10,000 per week.
Moody's said the target was ambitious given the relatively small size of the US electric car market.

Summary: Tesla expects to raise nearly $1.8bn (Â£1.4bn) by selling "junk" bonds to private investors - even more than the electric car-maker aimed for when it announced the offering this month.
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Article: Two handgun shots were fired into the air as hundreds of people clashed with police on Monday night.
The unrest began when officials began an operation to clear out unlicensed street food stalls.
More than 90 people, mostly police officers and reporters, were injured and dozens of people were arrested.
Protesters threw bricks and bottles at police, who were using batons and pepper spray.
Despite the attempted crackdown, food stalls were operating as usual again on Tuesday evening.
Mong Kok clashes
What happened in Mong Kok?
Hong Kong police attempted to shut down unlicensed food stalls along the junction of Shan Tung Road and Portland Street in Kowloon. Clashes erupted after dozens of local activists gathered to defend the vendors.
What's the deal with the food stalls?
The unlicensed food stalls were set up for the Lunar New Year holiday. Officials usually turn a blind eye to the hawkers' lack of official permits, but this year decided to crack down.
Were the clashes just about street food?
The underlying tensions go deeper. Many "localist" groups, who want greater autonomy for Hong Kong, turned up to support the vendors, arguing that Hong Kong's identity is under threat. Trust between the public and the police has also declined in recent years. On social media the protest was dubbed #fishballrevolution, after one of the snacks on sale.
Read more: More than fishballs
Video footage showed one officer firing into the air after police and protesters rushed into the middle of the street, and one officer was tackled by a protester.
Police Commissioner Stephen Lo announced the inquiry at a press conference on Tuesday, but defended the officer who fired the shots.
"Rioters attacked a police officer with hard objects and threatened his life. He fell on the ground but kept being attacked by the rioters.
"With no alternative, his police colleague used his firearm in accordance with the use of force principles, to prevent his fellow colleague from being further attacked and also for his own personal safety," he...

Summary: Hong Kong police will hold an inquiry to determine whether it was appropriate for an officer to fire two warning shots during unrest in Mong Kok.
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Article: The economy expanded 0.6% in the period compared to the previous quarter, marking its second consecutive quarter of growth.
The result was far better than the 0.4% analysts had expected.
On an annualised basis, the economy grew 2.4% in the period against forecasts of 1.5%.
Analysts said the first quarter growth rate was "very positive".
"The  recovery seems to be well on track," Tony Nash, chief economist at Complete Intelligence, told the BBC.
"This must bring a smile to Prime Minister Abe's face and is a vindication that his economic policies are moving things in the right direction."
The country came out of recession in the fourth quarter of last year.
Japan relies on domestic consumption for about 60% of its economy, but it has been recovering from a sales tax hike which has dampened spending.
Private consumption and capital spending were both up 0.4% in the quarter, but capital spending was expected to rise by 0.8%.
Capital Economics analyst Marcel Thieliant said in a note that the acceleration in economic growth for the period "was mostly due to a jump in inventories".
"And a range of indicators point to a slowdown in the second quarter.
"Industrial production in March was 4% below its January peak, and the drop in the manufacturing PMI (Purchasing Manager's Index) to a multi-month low in April suggests that conditions are unlikely to improve quickly," he added.
Other headwinds Japan's economy has been facing include wages, which have remained stagnant for several years, together with a weaker yen, which makes imported goods more expensive for consumers on the home front.
On the upside however, the weaker yen does give a boost to the country's big exporters, like Toyota, because it makes their goods cheaper to buy overseas. It also helps their bottom line when they repatriate money made from overseas operations.
Why Japan's inventories matter - By Martin Schulz, Fujitsu Research Institute
Corporate decisions about their inventory levels have been the main driver of growth, or disappointment, for the...

Summary: Japan's economy grew faster than expected between January and March, boosting hopes that the economy is recovering from last year's recession.
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Article: The man was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
The arrest took place by appointment at a north London police station; the man is in police custody.
He has been bailed to a date in mid January 2012.
He was arrested by officers from Scotland Yard's fresh investigation into phone hacking, Operation Weeting.
On Tuesday, a 71-year-old Stuart Kuttner, an ex-News of the World managing editor, was rearrested and bailed as part of the phone-hacking probe.
Mr Kuttner was originally arrested on 2 August on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and corruption, and bailed.
He has now been bailed to a date in September, the Metropolitan Police said.
The Met's Operation Weeting is investigating illegal hacking of the mobile phone voicemails of public figures by the now-defunct News of the World newspaper.
The latest arrest is the 15th to be made on suspicion of phone hacking since Operation Weeting was launched in January. It happened just after midday.
BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds said the age of the arrested person suggested someone more junior compared to some of the more senior executives who have been arrested by the police so far.
It is a long-running investigation and there would almost certainly be further arrests, our correspondent added.
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and ex-Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson are among those who have already been arrested as part of the inquiry.
The scandal has led Met Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and Assistant Commissioner John Yates to resign, and the News of the World to close down after 168 years.

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The convener of Scotland's Crofting Commission has reiterated he will not stand down amid a heated public dispute over common grazings - unless he is forced to by the Scottish government.

Article: The program - Moments - was released in some countries in 2015, but withheld elsewhere because of local data privacy rules.
The company has created a different version of the software to get around these restrictions.
But it acknowledged the new edition required "a little bit of work" for users to get the most out of it.
Moment's core features are that it automatically groups together photos featuring the same friend or friends, and then makes it easy to share the pictures with them if they have installed the same app.
In the original version, the snaps are automatically tagged with people's names, because Facebook is able to match them to other photos in its wider database.
But data protection watchdogs in the EU and Canada had expressed concern their citizens would have no way to opt out of the process.
To address this, the adapted app now links together photos of similar-looking faces but requires the user to identify who they are.
Moments is not the only app to use facial recognition to sort images.
Google Photos is the most popular alternative to do so.
But the search giant has yet to extend the facility to Europe, to avoid falling foul of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner.
Facebook has not disclosed how many people have signed up to Moments since its release on the US's iOS and Android stores 11 months ago.
However, the company has said more than 600 million pictures have been shared via the app so far.
"Our primary purpose is to solve a problem that we know that people have, where they never get the photos that their friends take of them," the app's product manager Will Ruben told the BBC.
"We view that as a pretty different type of sharing than might happen on Facebook, where people share photos more broadly with a large group of friends or even publicly.
"Moments is closer to the type of sharing that might happen these days on Whatsapp or other [private] messaging apps - but it places the photos together into a collection."
Users decide which photos are shared with the people labelled in them,...

Summary: Facebook has launched its facial-recognition-powered photo-sharing app in the EU and Canada.
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Article: City Hall said as of May 2015, 14,350 of private sector landlords had signed up to the London Rental Standard.
Labour said the scheme was "failing renters" and the mayor's pledge to sign up 100,000 landlords by May 2016 would take decades.
But, the deputy mayor of housing said the scheme had been a "huge success".
The standard, launched last May, offers letting agents and landlords a badge if they meet a set of criteria, including improved property conditions and quicker repairs and maintenance.
It combines seven separate accreditation schemes under a single framework.
About 331 letting agents managing an estimated 121,000 properties have signed up, the mayor's office said.
Richard Blakeway, deputy mayor for housing, said: "Most landlords own just one property, whereas signing up a single branch of a letting agency reaches an estimated 200 homes.
"This is a huge success in one year and we look forward to working with thousands more landlords and agents to help get a better deal for renters as this scheme grows."
But, London Assembly's Labour group claims of those landlords counted as members, 13,512 were already signed up to various other accreditation schemes, meaning there were fewer than 1,000 new joiners.
Member Tom Copley said: "We need real change in the private rented sector. Londoners need the peace of mind and security of longer tenancy agreements, caps on rent increases and an end to no fault evictions.
"Instead, Boris Johnson's soft touch and self-regulatory approach is leaving private renters with little protection from bad landlords."

Summary: A voluntary scheme aimed at improving rental standards has been criticised after only 12% of London landlords signed up in a year.
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Article: The men kicked in the door of a flat in Skegness and savagely beat the occupants with baseball bats, an axe and a knuckle duster.
One of the victims almost bled to death from a severed artery and was cut across the face, scarring him for life.
At Lincoln Crown Court Judge John Pini QC told the men: "This was an extremely serious and grave matter."
The court was told the two victims, aged 19 and 23, were friends of a local man who was involved in a turf war with rival dealer Thomas Barraclough, who had recently moved to the resort.
Barraclough, joined by four men from his home city of Bradford, broke into the flat in South Parade on 7 March and carried out what police described as a "brutal attack".
Stephen Kemp, prosecuting, said the "extreme violence" used in the attack was an attempt to "destroy the local competition".
Passing sentence, Judge Pini said: "It is drugs that are entirely behind this dreadful episode.
"Extreme violence was brought to Skegness over drug dealing. This court will send out a message that it will not be tolerated."

Summary: Five men who used baseball bats and an axe in an attack on friends of a rival drug dealer have been jailed.
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Article: 14 December 2011 Last updated at 06:55 GMT
Like many other countries, America has big money problems.
So on Ricky's road trip, he visited one of the USA's worst-hit areas - Detroit in Michigan - to see if Mr Obama has been able to turn things around there.
Detroit was nicknamed "Motor City" because it once made the cars that powered America, but competition from other countries meant many car companies shut down for good.
In the past 10 years, almost a quarter of a million people have left to find jobs elsewhere.
In his report, Ricky visits a soup kitchen helping struggling families and meets a man who's turning spaces where houses used to stand into farms.

Summary: When US President Barack Obama first moved into the White House, there was one big word at the top of his to-do list... MONEY.
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Article: James Oxley said that unlike some EU countries, the UK does not have legal requirements on the size of hutches, or that rabbits be kept in pairs.
Writing in the World Rabbit Science Association's journal, he said rules in the Animal Welfare Act 2006 were "non-specific".
He has also suggested a review of how existing law impacts on rabbits.
Mr Oxley, who is involved in researching rabbit owners' interactions with their pets, said the review could also look at how the UK compared with other EU countries in its protection of the animals.
In a letter published in the journal World Rabbit Science, he said: "It has recently been noted that there are an estimated one to 1.7 million rabbits within the UK.
"Currently there have only been several small-scale studies in the UK which have looked at the management, personality and behaviour of pet rabbits and the views, personality and attitudes of new and current rabbit owners."
Mr Oxley said one study of pet owners had found that 60% of them planned to have an enclosure which was either the same, or smaller, than the recommend minimum size.
The research also suggested that 41% intended to keep their rabbit on its own.
Animal welfare charities the PDSA and Rabbit Welfare Association and Fund say a hutch should be no smaller than 6ft (1.8m) long, 2ft wide and 2ft high.
Both recommend pet owners provide rabbits with much larger enclosures than the minimum size, as well as a big run.
In the wild, rabbits live in social groups within large territories.
UK environment department Defra said owners were required to provide their pets with a suitable environment and proper exercise.
A spokesperson said: "Existing legislation provides adequate protection for the welfare of domestic pets including rabbits - anyone who fails to provide for their pet's welfare needs may face prosecution.
"There are no proposals to amend the legislation."
In Scotland, the campaign Rabbits Require Rights has a petition calling for rabbit welfare-specific legislation.
It said rabbits were the UK's...

Summary: Pet rabbits need better legal protection, according to an animal welfare scientist.
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Article: Last month, the board of crofting's regulatory body apologised for its handling of the dispute with crofters.
It also asked convener Colin Kennedy to resign.
But Mr Kennedy told BBC Scotland's Sunday Politics Scotland he was staying in the post.
The dispute relates to the running of common grazings, including at Mangersta and Upper Coll on Lewis.
Mr Kennedy said: "I have no intention of resigning.
"As matters stand, I believe the commission have acted wholly within the law at all times and until such times as we have legal advice to the contrary, I will maintain my position."
Last week, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scottish government ministers had the power to intervene in the affairs of the troubled commission.
She said ministers would not ordinarily get involved in the internal operations of the commission.
However, during First Minister's Questions in Holyrood on Thursday, she said legislation did give them the power to intervene if required.

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Members of Australia's Olympic swimming team said they used the sleeping medication Stilnox during a "bonding" session before the Games last year.

Article: The figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also showed the annual rate of sales growth slowed to 4.0% last month from 4.7% in May.
That was the slowest annual growth rate since September 2014, and was below analysts' forecasts.
However, the ONS said the annual growth rate was still "strong".
Sales volumes in the April-to-June quarter were up 0.7% from the previous quarter.
The value of online sales in June increased by 1.4% compared with May and accounted for 12.4% of all retail sales.
Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist for IHS Global Insight, said June's sales data was "a little disappointing" but added that the figures were "not a body blow to improved second quarter growth hopes".
He noted that retail sales volumes "still rose by a decent 0.7%" in the second quarter, suggesting consumer spending made "a healthy contribution to GDP growth".
Many analysts have been expecting retail sales to do well, with recent statistics showing wage increases are picking up while inflation remains near zero.
The ONS said average store prices were 2.9% lower in June compared with the same month a year earlier.
Ross Walker, senior UK economist at RBS, argued that sales volumes were being "flattered" by low inflation, and that sales values data painted "a much more subdued picture".
The value of sales in the second quarter rose 0.7% from the previous three months, and rose 1.3% from the second quarter of 2014.
"We are not suggesting that UK consumer demand is weak... merely that there is little evidence of demand accelerating to above-trend rates," said Mr Walker.
In the past week, the Bank of England governor Mark Carney has hinted that UK interest rates could rise "at the turn of this year", while minutes from the last meeting of Bank rate-setters suggested some members were close to voting for a rate rise.
However, Chris Williamson, chief economist at research firm Markit, said the dip in June's sales volumes and the fall in prices would strengthen the arguments for those arguing against a rate...

Summary: UK retail sales volumes fell unexpectedly by 0.2% in June, after consumers bought fewer household goods, and less food and petrol.
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Article: The results for Highland Council have seen the first Conservatives to be elected in 22 years, with six so far in wards in and around Inverness.
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has said her party has won its first ever seat in the Western Isles.
Ranald Fraser is among the newly-elected councillors to Comhairle nan Eilean Siar.
The comhairle's count in Stornoway on Lewis, which has finished, has seen none of the women among the candidates elected.
Independents have dominated the Western Isles election, as they have done previously, with 23 Independent candidates being elected, followed by seven SNP, one Conservative and no Labour councillors.
Labour had three candidates elected at the last vote in 2012.
Paramedics were called to the Stornoway count after veteran SNP figure and Barra and South Uist candidate Donald Manford fell ill.
No details were available on his condition. Mr Manford is a well known figure in Western Isles politics and has been re-elected as a councillor.
In the Highlands, the five Conservatives councillors are in the wards of Inverness Ness-side, Aird and Loch Ness, Inverness Millburn, Nairn and Cawdor, Inverness South and Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh.
The results from Highland Council's count have also seen the re-election of veteran figures.
They include the council's former leader, Independent councillor Margaret Davidson, the SNP group's leader before the election Maxine Smith, former Inverness provost Helen Carmichael and long-time Labour councillor Jimmy Gray and Lib Dem Jamie Stone.

Summary: The Scottish Conservatives have made historic gains in the Highlands and the Western Isles.
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Article: Attacks by the Boko Haram group that provoked the move included an assault on a military barracks, detonating a bomb at a bus station in the northern city of Kano and the kidnap of a French family, including four children, which grabbed the world's attention.
The declaration would bring "extraordinary measures" to bear against the insurgents in order to "restore normalcy" to the region, the president said.
"The troops have orders to carry out all necessary actions within the ambit of their rules of engagement to put an end to the impunity of insurgents and terrorists," President Jonathan said.
Now, after 12 months of state of emergency powers being in force, in the past few weeks Boko Haram has attacked several military bases, bombed a busy bus terminal in the capital, Abuja - twice - and launched an audacious kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls from Chibok which has set the world on edge.
"When they declared it I thought it had to be tried," says Habeeb Pindiga, editor of Nigeria's Daily Trust newspaper, "but honestly it has not succeeded."
In the year leading up to the state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe state, there were 741 civilian death reported, according to data collected by the University of Sussex in the UK.
In the 12 months since the figure of civilian causalities has more than tripled to 2,265.
Mr Pindiga says the military has not dealt with big problems it faces.
Because of the military's human rights record people do not trust them, plus they lack modern equipment, training and motivation.
A UK military officer who has worked closely with the Nigerians says they are stuck in a Catch-22 situation.
"The trouble with the Nigerian government is that they want a big red button, which you can press and it will fix everything," says James Hall, a retired colonel and former UK military attache to Nigeria.
"I was asked by a senior commander if we could sell them the machine that can tell if a car driving down the road contains a terrorist," he added.
"I tried to tell them that such a...

Summary: Exactly a year after Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a "state of emergency" in north-eastern Nigeria, it seems to have had little effect in curbing the Islamist insurgency.
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Article: Teams from Europe and the Rest of the World will compete annually for the Laver Cup, named after 77-year-old Australian tennis legend Rod Laver.
The inaugural edition of the event is scheduled for September 2017.
"I like the concept but I don't know if players will take it seriously," Cash told Radio 5 live sports extra.
The tournament organisers say each six-man team will be captained by a "a legend of the sport", who will pick two wildcards to add to the four players who qualify through "a results-based formula".
The 12-match competition will take place over three days, with each day featuring three singles matches and a doubles match.
The tournament is the brainchild of Team8, the management agency of 17-time grand slam winner Roger Federer, Tennis Australia and Jorge Paulo Lemann, a Brazilian businessman who represented both Brazil and Switzerland as a player in the Davis Cup.
Cash, who won the men's singles title at Wimbledon in 1987, believes the timing of the tournament will discourage the top players from signing up.
"The concept is a great idea, but it's after the US Open and the Davis Cup [semi-finals] - it's stuck in the middle of a tournament," he said.
"With the Davis Cup struggling in some places in the world, I'm not sure we need another tournament to squeeze in."

Summary: A Ryder Cup-style competition for men's tennis may struggle to win player support, according to former Wimbledon champion Pat Cash.
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Article: James Bibby and Thomas Elmer, from Lancashire, died at the Sonae chipboard factory in Merseyside in 2010.
A 2013 inquest concluded their deaths were caused by a failure to follow procedures and highlighted a lack of training on how to use the equipment.
Sonae Industria and Valmet Ltd were fined £220,000 and £190,000 respectively.
They were also ordered to pay £107,000 each to cover prosecution costs.
The 2013 inquest found the two sub-contractors, who lived in Rossendale, had not been shown how to isolate the conveyor belt from the power supply.
The men were carrying out repairs at the Kirkby factory when the conveyor belt started up and they were dragged into the machinery.
The belt was triggered automatically as factory machinery started to dump wood chips into a silo.
A post-mortem examination found both men died from several injuries.
The site, which opened in 2000, was badly damaged by a large fire in August 2011 in which a demolition worker - James Dennis Kay, 62, from Heywood, Greater Manchester - died.
The plant was affected by a second fire in January 2012 and it closed later that year with the loss of 220 jobs.

Summary: Two firms have been fined £410,000 after the deaths of two workers who were dragged into a conveyor belt.
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Article: The six male athletes also said they engaged in disruptive behaviour.
The admission follows a report that assessed Australia's poor swimming performance at the London 2012 Games which pointed to a "toxic" team culture.
Swimming Australia said the swimmers will face an inquiry panel.
Stilnox, used to treat insomnia, is not considered a performance enhancer and is not a banned substance, but the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) put it on the prohibited list ahead of the Games.
In their statement, the six members of the men's 4x100 freestyle relay team said the prescriptions "were filled in Australia before their departure to their staging camp in Spain and prior to the AOC's announcement the drug was (prohibited)".
But they "acknowledge that at the time Stilnox was consumed it had been recently prohibited for use".
"We stand here collectively to confirm that we did take part in a bonding exercise during which members of the relay team took Stilnox," the six swimmers said.
"We acknowledge by our recent action in continuing a recent tradition in the Australia swim team, we have let ourselves down and the people who have supported us."
All but one team member took the medication, they said. Then they engaged in pranks they described as "childish" and "stupid", such as knocking on the doors of other athletes and making phone calls. They said they were asleep by 22:30.
"I think one of the reasons I agreed to go along with it was all the pressure I was under," one of the swimmers, James Magnussen, said. "Completely inappropriate in hindsight."
The relay team, nicknamed Weapons of Mass Destruction before the Olympics, came in fourth in the event, in which they had been expected to deliver a medal.
Magnussen, a favourite to win the men's 100 metres freestyle, won a silver.
Their admission follows the release of a review of the sport after the country's worst Olympic swimming performance in two decades.
It found that amid a lack of leadership a "toxic" team culture developed that led to bullying and misuse of...

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Companies must prepare for new tougher EU rules on data protection, or face big fines, PwC has warned.

Article: About 70 people attended the meeting at Kesgrave Town Council on Monday night.
On Thursday evening residents blocked green spaces with wheelie bins and cars amid reports of more travellers descending on the town, after 13 caravans arrived last month.
The Gypsy Council called the blockades "pathetic" and "shameful".
Caravans were already in Kesgrave when rumours on social media last week suggested 100 more travellers were set to join an unauthorised camp at Grange Farm.
It led to dozens of people blockading parks, verges and gardens, with agricultural machinery also used to block off an access road.
But despite the reports, just five children and their families attended Holy Family Church for a normal daily Mass on Friday morning.
The travellers at the site are expected to leave soon, but if they do not go, the local council is due to attend another court hearing later to get them evicted.
After the meeting, one resident told the BBC: "The police have got no intention of moving them on. It's like they're scared of them, it's just a big joke really.
Suffolk Coastal District Council leader Ray Herring, who oversaw the meeting, said: "When the last caravan goes we will put in a team to clean up the site and put some temporary measures in to restrict travellers returning."
Speaking about last week's blockades, Candy Sheridan from the Gypsy Council said it was "pathetic" and "un-Christian" when people had travelled miles to celebrate a first communion for the children.
There are 185 authorised travellers pitches in Suffolk, but none in the Suffolk Coastal area.

Summary: A meeting to discuss travellers in a Suffolk town had to be held in a car park because so many residents turned up.
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Article: Now 89% of the population of the world have access to improved water supplies, up from 76% in the base year of 1990.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon hailed the achievement of halving the number of people without access to improved drinking water.
He said it was thanks to people who had seen it not as a dream, but a vital step to improve health and well-being.
Improvement to clean water supplies has not been even: 40% of those still without access to improved drinking water live in sub-Saharan Africa.
Worldwide, almost 800 million people still drink dirty water. But in the past 20 years, two billion people have gained access to improved drinking water.
While this was the first significant Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to be reached, the charity Water Aid says that the other part of the target, for safe sanitation, is more off track than any other MDG.
The biggest challenge for this target is in India, where more than half of the population, 626 million people, do not have access to a toilet.
The other MDGs, including those on reducing poverty and improving access to education, are unlikely to be hit by 2015. The global economic downturn and greater pressure from increased population have pushed success even further out of reach.

Summary: The Millennium Development Goal for access to clean water has been reached, ahead of the target date of 2015.
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Article: "What election madness!" tabloid Bild exclaims in a banner headline, while the a report in Sueddeutsche Zeitung predicts: "These elections will change Germany."
Several papers believe Ms Merkel and her Christian Democrats are "paying the price" for her liberal policy on immigration.
"The refugee crisis has re-shaped the party landscape," an editorial in Die Welt says, adding that not everyone in her party will forgive her for putting its interests behind those of "Europe and her country too".
A commentary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung agrees, saying Ms Merkel was "punished" for her course.
"Merkel stood in none of the federal states where people went to the polls on Sunday," it says, "but everywhere was a vote on her policy".
But - reaching for Biblical allusions - it adds that it is more likely "for a camel to go through the eye of a needle" than for Ms Merkel to change her mind.
A commentary in Bild, however, rejects the idea that the result is a rejection of Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door policy, despite her Christian Democrat party's "crushing defeat".
It points out that the pro-immigration Social Democrat and Green premiers of two states - Rhineland Palatinate and Baden Wuerttemberg - gained votes.
The Tageszeitung agrees. Under the front-page headline "85% stay cool", it points out that the "overwhelming majority" have voted for parties that support Ms Merkel's course.
"The winners of these elections are fear, exclusion and authoritarianism," a commentary in the paper concedes.
But it adds that the rise of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany is largely the result of the mainstream parties' "confusion and loss of trust" in their own programme, in their own supporters and even in Germany.
A commentary in business paper Handelsblatt says the results are a "wake-up call" for Germany's mainstream parties - the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats.
It adds that the crisis goes beyond the refugee issue, and that neither of the two seems able to provide answers to people's...

Summary: Germany's press is reeling from the dramatic - and partly contradictory - results of Sunday's elections in three federal states.
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Article: Almost 600 16 to 24-year-olds were asked to choose the most important moral issue from eight options, with 59% opting for caring for family.
Some 4% said having religious faith or beliefs was the most important.
The poll also suggests 51% of young people believe they are less concerned with morals than their parents.
The poll, commissioned by BBC Religion and Ethics, asked young people to choose their top moral issue, with options including buying ethical products, being faithful to a partner and caring for the environment.
Looking after family was the top choice, with "putting others first" coming some way behind in second.
Four per cent listed practising a religion as the most important moral issue, the same percentage as said paying taxes.
When asked for the least important issue, religion came out on top with a third of respondents citing it.
New figures from the British Social Attitudes survey - published alongside the poll - suggest that about half of Britons as a whole have a religious affiliation, sharply down from 20 years ago when it was two-thirds.
Barely a quarter of young people now identify themselves as religious.
Of the eight moral issues, the poll found:
The poll was carried out by TNS BMRB to coincide with the opening of the BBC's Re:Think Festival.
The festival takes place in Salford, Greater Manchester, on Wednesday and Thursday and will include a debate on the relationship between science and religion between Professor Richard Dawkins and the country's Chief Rabbi, Dr Jonathan Sacks.

Summary: Most young people in Britain think that morality means looking after your family or putting others first, a BBC poll suggests.
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Article: The New York Times has revealed that the former Florida governor identified himself as Hispanic in 2009.
It published a voter registration form where Mr Bush had marked "Hispanic" rather than "White, not Hispanic".
On Twitter Mr Bush came clean, "My mistake! Don't think I've fooled anyone!, after his son called him a "honorary Latino".
The newspaper posted a fuzzy copy of the form, which it said it had obtained from the Miami-Dade County Elections Department.
The Bush camp said it was unclear how the error was made.
"The governor's family certainly got a good laugh out of it," spokeswoman Kristy Campbell said. "He is not Hispanic."
The Republican politician has excellent credentials for his alternative ethnicity. He is a fluent Spanish speaker and his wife, Columba Bush, was born in Mexico. He also spent two years in Venezuela during his early twenties.
Born in Texas, Mr Bush is the brother of former US President George W Bush and son of former President George HW Bush. He is believed to be considering seeking the Republican nomination for president in the 2016 elections.
He is widely seen as a centrist Republican who can appeal to different demographics, hopefully including Hispanic voters.

Summary: Politicians want to appeal to a range of voters but Jeb Bush may have overreached chasing the Hispanic vote.
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Article: The financial services firm said new rules, coming into effect next May, could see fines soar to 20m euros (£17.4m) or more.
Fines for data breaches had already risen, from 18 in 2015, to 35 in 2016, amounting to £3.2m in total, said PwC.
There were also 23 enforcement notices, where organisations were required to improve compliance - a 155% increase.
According to PwC's research, the UK is one of the most active places in Europe for regulatory enforcement in this area, along with Italy.
Penalties issued by the UK Information Commissioner's Office in 2016 included a record £400,000 fine for telecoms firm TalkTalk over security failings that allowed a cyber attacker to access customer data "with ease".
In 2015 the online pharmacy Pharmacy 2U was also told to pay £130,000 after it sold details of more than 20,000 customers to marketing companies without their consent.
However, PwC said that when the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes law across the EU next May, firms would face much tougher obligations and penalties.
In particular, the Information Commissioner's Office will be able to issue fines of up to 4% of global turnover, or 20m euros - whichever is highest. The regulator can only issues fines of up to £500,000 at present.
"UK organisations must use the remaining time to prepare for GDPR compliance before May next year," said Stewart Room, an expert in global cybersecurity and data protection at PwC.
The UK is due to adopt the new rules before it leaves the EU, but PwC said it was unlikely to water down the protections after it left the union.

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Sites for testing wave and tidal energy off the west coast of Anglesey and south Pembrokeshire have been approved.

Article: Once they had done their work, you might go as far as to replace some of the furniture nibbled by the rodents but you probably wouldn't replace every single item they had touched.
Yet that was the approach taken by the New York Times when it cleaned house after its internal network was infested by a more modern nuisance - computer hackers.
Every device, be it a laptop or chunk of network hardware, known or thought to have been compromised by the Chinese hackers was thrown out and replaced with a shiny, and more importantly, clean machine.
The newspaper wanted to be sure that no trace of the hackers remained.
In addition, the NYT beefed up its defences, blocked access from other compromised machines that had been used to get into its network and found and removed every back door into the newspaper's network.
The decision to replace computers was motivated by the all-encompassing access that the attackers had to the NYT network. In an article detailing the attack, the NYT said the Chinese attackers had access for at least four months.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at security company Sophos, which often helps companies cope with intrusions by hackers, said replacing all those machines was "a bit extreme".
"Normally, the most extreme measure is to reformat drives or completely wipe them but even that would be a bit of a sledgehammer," he said.
Reformatting and wiping drives was sufficient to defeat even those malicious programs that buried themselves deep in the heart of the Windows operating system, he said.
"Usually they would put a clean Windows installation on there rather than chuck out the hardware," he added.
Mr Cluley speculated that the NYT threw out the machines to reassure partners, employees and others that the intrusion had been dealt with.
The lingering problem, he said, was that the NYT was still not sure how its attackers won access to its network.
The NYT suspects a so-called "spear phishing" attack that sent targeted, booby-trapped messages to a few key individuals. After they had...

Summary: If your house was infested with mice, the chances are that you would call a pest control firm to get rid of them.
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Article: Police said the shooting happened at Irving Plaza, near Union Square, Manhattan, where hip-hop artist TI was due to perform on Wednesday evening.
No-one has been arrested and the motive for the shooting is unclear.
Witnesses reported panic inside the concert hall when the shots rang out. Police have sealed off the area around the venue.
The victims were three men, one of whom died, and a woman, the New York Times reported.
TI, whose real name is Clifford Joseph Harris Jr, was not on stage at the time. His representatives have not yet commented on the incident.

Summary: One person has been killed and three others wounded in a shooting at a music venue in New York.
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Article: Stroud Farmers' Market, The Rollright Stones, Westonbirt Arboretum and Cotswold limestone made the final list.
The "Seven Wonders of the Cotswolds" was compiled to celebrate 45 years of the region being designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Cleeve Hill and Common, the Cotswold Way National Trail and Woodchester Mansion and Park also made the final seven, voted by more than 500 people.
A spokeswoman for the Cotswold Conservation Board, which led the search, said it had been a "fascinating campaign".
"The final list is a very interesting one which represents some of the Cotswolds' most distinctive features which we plan to use to create some new 'wonder walks' to help more people access and enjoy our beautiful Cotswolds landscape," she added.
Some 80 nominations were received from members of the public after the board began its search in December last year.
Ideas included historic sites, viewpoints, cultural features and towns and villages.
The Cotswolds is the second largest protected landscape in England after the Lake District National Park.
It covers 790 sq miles (2,038 sq km), stretching from Warwickshire and Worcestershire in the north, through Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, down to Bath and Wiltshire in the south.

Summary: The "seven wonders" of the Cotswolds have been revealed after a public vote.
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Article: A top secret document sent to newspaper editors has surfaced on the internet.
Issued by the ministry in charge of the press, the two-page document faxed to media organisations relays directives from Iran's Supreme National Security Council.  It says editors should praise the deal and the negotiating team.
It stresses the need "to safeguard the achievements of the talks"; avoid sowing "doubt and disappointment among the public"; and avoid giving the impression of "a rift" at the highest levels of government.
It's been the reformist newspapers in Iran that have been the target of such orders in the past - orders that for example sought to stifle debate about the advisability of the whole nuclear programme, and its cost to the nation.
But this secret document seems to target the hardline newspapers for once - newspapers that have been critical of the nuclear deal reached in Vienna on 14 July.
Nuclear deal, main points
The order enacted a few days ago seems to have worked. There is hardly a dissenting voice. This is while the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has not come out for or against the deal, preferring to wait for the time being.
The directive to the editors of the newspapers and news agencies shows how nervous the authorities are about reaction from the hardliners who occupy key positions in many of the country's centres of power, including the Revolutionary Guards corp.
In the first days following the agreement, the hardliners were very critical of the deal, complaining about a host of undertakings that Iran had given at the talks.
But most importantly, to them the deal meant Iran has foregone its ability to build nuclear weapons in return for lifting of the sanctions.
The hardliners have always harboured the idea that Iran should be capable of building the bomb, so that it could boast about it and deter Israel as well as the US from ever contemplating an attack.
They always entertained the hope that Iran could reach the point of being only the turn-of-a-screw away from the building the...

Summary: The Iranian authorities have ordered the media not to criticise the recent nuclear agreement with world powers, it has emerged.
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Article: The Edinburgh-based company said it had launched a consultation process with staff as part of a major restructuring.
BBC Scotland understands Aquamarine's workforce could be cut from more than 50 to less than 20.
Last month, Edinburgh-based wave power firm Pelamis went into administration.
Aquamarine Power chief executive John Malcolm said the decision to downsize the firm came after a strategic review.
He said: "This will involve retaining a core operational and management team to run the business and continue maintaining our Oyster 800 wave machine at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney.
"We have entered into a consultation process with all of our employees on how we will take forward the restructuring and redundancy programme.
"This is obviously taking place at a difficult time of year and we will be working very closely with every employee to achieve the best outcome for all."
He added: "None of this is a reflection on the extraordinary dedication and hard work of every single member of the Aquamarine Power team; rather it is a consequence of the considerable financial, regulatory and technical challenges faced by the ocean energy sector as a whole.
"In a relatively short number of years our business has significantly advanced the goal of generating electricity from waves and this has relied wholly upon the bright ideas, innovation and talent of the people who work here.
"We remain confident that Oyster technology offers the best route to a commercial near shore wave energy machine."
The Scottish government recently announced it would set up a new technology development body to encourage innovation in the wave energy industry.
It added that Wave Energy Scotland would bring the best engineering and academic minds together to work on furthering wave technology.

Summary: Scotland's renewables industry has been dealt a fresh blow with the news that wave energy firm Aquamarine Power is to "significantly downsize" its business.
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Article: The Crown Estate said that leasing the sites for technology development was "critical" for the UK to unlock the potential of wave and tidal energy.
First Minister Carwyn Jones said the benefits could be significant in terms of the economy and renewable energy.
Wales's first commercial tidal energy farm is due to launch off Anglesey in summer 2016.
Its electricity generators will operate like wind turbines but with blades driven by tidal wave action.
Menter Mon and Wave Hub were confirmed by the Crown Estate as managers for the west Anglesey tidal and south Pembrokeshire wave demonstration zones respectively.
They will prepare and manage the sites for sub-letting to developers.
In addition, development rights for a tidal site off Holyhead Deep have been granted to Minesto.
Rob Hastings, director of energy and infrastructure at the Crown Estate said: "By providing these additional seabed rights we are pleased to be enabling further technology development and commercialisation, which will be critical if the UK is to unlock its significant natural resources for wave and tidal current energy.
"This innovative approach to leasing the seabed sees us responding to market demand and introducing managed demonstration zones to give other organisations the opportunity to lend tangible support in their local areas."
First Minster Carwyn Jones said: "The energetic waters off our coast are ideal for marine renewable energy projects.
"Our ports, supply-chain infrastructure and grid infrastructure also put us in an enviable position for developing a thriving marine energy market, both as a significant generator and as an exporter of marine energy knowledge, technologies and services."
Gareth Clubb, director of Friends of the Earth Cymru said: "To having testing sites approved for marine renewable energy is a significant step forward."

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The party of Nigeria's incoming president has won a landslide in elections for powerful state governors, ending the former ruling party's dominance.

Article: Leonard Scollay, 40, died after the Diamond hit rocks and sank near Burrafirth harbour on 25 March 2014.
At Lerwick Sheriff Court, Christopher Smith, 39, also admitted neglecting to keep a proper lookout.
Sheriff Philip Mann acknowledged that Smith was "truly remorseful" over the death of a friend.
It was Mr Scollay's first voyage to sea and he had not had any sea survival training. He was not wearing a life jacket.
A previous Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) report said both the skipper and Mr Scollay had taken drugs.
It said their ability to function had been significantly impaired as a result.
The MAIB report, released last year, said: "The skipper employed Leonard without ensuring that he was appropriately trained.
"It is likely that Leonard Scollay would have survived had he been wearing a lifejacket.
"However, he had taken heroin before the accident and this would have impaired his ability to survive or to appreciate his predicament."
Defence agent Martin Morrow said it was "unquestionably difficult" for the court.
Sheriff Mann said that Smith had pleaded guilty to a "very serious charge" of failing to keep a proper lookout.
"Unfortunately Mr Scollay lost his life; you fortunately survived," the sheriff said.
He said no sentence he could impose would "bring Mr Scollay back or lessen the grief" felt by his family, but by passing sentence he was "not engaged in trying to place a value on Mr Scollay's life" as that would be impossible.
Smith's six-month jail term was reduced from nine months to reflect his guilty plea.

Summary: The master of a Shetland boat that sank has been jailed for six months after he admitted failing to preserve a crewman's life.
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Article: The panda, born on Friday at the Smithsonian National Zoo, weighs 4.8oz (136g), has a steady heartbeat, functioning lungs and digests food.
But a second cub was stillborn. Mother Mei Xiang has one other surviving cub, born in 2005.
Pandas are critically endangered and are difficult to breed. A cub born last year in Washington died after six days.
"All the external features looked perfectly normal, so the cub has been described as vibrant, healthy and active," zoo spokeswoman Pamela Baker-Masson told the Associated Press news agency. "This is joyful news."
The baby panda is pink with white fur and has not opened its eyes yet.
Veterinarians took a DNA sample from the cub to establish its paternity.
Mei Xiang had been artificially inseminated with sperm from Tian Tian, the male panda at the same Washington zoo, and a panda from the San Diego Zoo called Gao Gao.
Zoo keepers are expected to try to examine the cub again on Tuesday. Its gender may not be known for two to three weeks.

Summary: A giant panda cub born at a Washington DC zoo is in "excellent" health, zoo keepers said after its first check-up.
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Article: They want to align the number of people coming to the UK - 596,000 in the year to last September - with those leaving, which was 323,000 over the same period.
Unskilled and low-skilled labour would be banned for five years while skilled workers and students would need visas.
Party leader Paul Nuttall said the "radical" plan would put "clear water" between it and the Conservatives.
It comes amid signs that Theresa May will retain a controversial target to reduce levels of net migration - which totalled 273,000 in the last recorded figures - to the tens of thousands in her party's manifesto.
The target, first set by David Cameron in the run-up to the 2010 election and criticised by business, has been repeatedly missed since then but the prime minister said it was still important to continue to aim for "sustainable" levels.
Net migration is the difference between the numbers of people moving to the UK for more than a year, and the numbers of people leaving the UK to live elsewhere for a year or more.
UKIP, which is seeking to bounce back from a poor set of local election results, said the Conservatives could not be trusted over the issue and only it had the "political will" to bring about a sizeable reduction in immigration, before and after the UK leaves the European Union.
Announcing its policy for June's general election, immigration spokesman John Bickley said England was the "sixth most overcrowded country in the world", with immigration levels putting pressure on public services and community cohesion and depressing wage levels for British workers.
Under its "one-in, one-out" plan, annual levels of migration would be reduced from 600,000 to about 300,000. There would be a five-year moratorium on unskilled and low-skilled labour, although seasonal workers, such as fruit pickers, would still be able to apply for six-month visas. (Under current rules anyone moving to the UK less than a year is not counted for the purposes of migration figures.)
The number of workers, students and family members given visas...

Summary: UKIP say they would cut net migration levels to zero within five years by almost halving immigration into the UK.
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Article: Wales became the first country in the world to make it mandatory that all new buildings - such as homes, flats and care homes - be fitted out.
Ruthin School's 40-bedroom block for boarding pupils has a system installed.
North Wales Fire and Rescue's Stuart Millington said it is "leading the way".
He said: "The legislation is intended to reduce the number of deaths and injuries from fire, improve the safety afforded to fire fighters and contribute to the sustainability of new developments."
The school's new-build is the first residential facility in north Wales to have sprinklers installed since the legislation came into effect, the service said.
However, the new rule has not been welcomed by all, with developer Redrow saying the "red tape" would lead to less new buildings in Wales.

Summary: A school residential block is thought to be the first in north Wales to install sprinklers after  new fire legislation came into effect.
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Article: Michael Anthony Bailey, 54, from Dale Terrace in Oldbury, Black Country, attacked his dog Lucky last June, magistrates in Birmingham heard.
When police came to his home he said the dog had run off but she was found hidden behind the washing machine.
Lucky made a full recovery but was later put down after it was found she was a banned breed.
More on this and other stories from Birmingham and the Black Country
Bailey was found guilty of one count of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal, and one count of failing to take reasonable steps to ensure the needs of the dog were met.
As well as his jail sentence he was also banned for life from owning animals and ordered to pay a Â£115 victim surcharge.
Steven Morrall, an investigator for the RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), praised police for saving Lucky from further injuries, but criticised the decision to put down the dog.
"This was a particularly brutal attack on the poor dog that was stabbed on her face and repeatedly punched, which left the her eyes so swollen that they were almost closed," he said.
"This is a very sad ending as Lucky had made a full recovery and we were hoping to see her into a new home.
"The RSPCA do not make these decisions. We do not agree with Breed Specific Legislation and have been campaigning for changes for some time."

Summary: A man who stabbed and punched his dog after the pet urinated on a bag of marijuana has been jailed for 12 weeks.
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Article: The All Progressives Congress (APC) won 19 of the 28 governor posts in results declared from Saturday's elections.
It is the biggest defeat for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) since military ruled ended in 1999.
It lost the presidential poll last month for the first time.
APC leader Muhammadu Buhari will be inaugurated on 29 May, after he defeated President Goodluck Jonathan.
The PDP's decline has been reinforced by results from Saturday's elections for governors and state assemblies, reports the BBC's Bashir Saad Abdullahi from the capital, Abuja.
The party lost for the first time in key northern states like Katsina and Kaduna, the home of outgoing Vice-President Namadi Sambo.
It also lost control of Adamawa, one of three states badly hit by militant Islamist group Boko Haram's insurgency.
However, the party managed to hold on to Rivers State, Nigeria's oil hub.
The PDP won eight governorships, mostly in the south-east.
Taraba is the only result still outstanding, while the election in Imo state was declared inconclusive, because the number of spoilt ballot papers was larger than the margin of victory.
Elections were not held in seven states.
Analysis: Chris Ewokor, BBC Africa, Abuja
The APC has made historic gains, relegating the once-powerful PDP to a regional party. The PDP failed to get a national spread of votes, doing well only in the south-east and the oil-rich Niger Delta. Most states in the north went to the APC, along with Nigeria's commercial hub, Lagos, in the south-west.
However, the APC failed to win in any of Nigeria's five oil-producing states. This will be of huge concern to President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, as militant groups could disrupt oil production and starve the federal government of much-needed oil revenue.  It is unlikely that the PDP governors in the five states would help Gen Buhari rein in the militants.
In parts of the country, the elections were marred by violence due to stiff rivalry, and the battle for power and money. Ethnic differences also fuelled the conflict in some...

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A consumer group has revealed its latest list of shrinking supermarket items that still cost the same, or more.

Article: TLP's Â£1bn project aims to pioneer the technology with Swansea becoming the first of six lagoons around Britain.
But now Ecotricity, one of the first green energy companies in the UK, said it is working on proposals to generate electricity through tidal energy.
In a letter sent to the UK government, it claimed Swansea could be the wrong place for such a project.
Ecotricity claims it can generate tidal energy at a lower price and financed over a shorter time than TLP.
The company's founder Dale Vince said the technology used to build the "sea walls" in Swansea was hundreds of years old and offered "no technological advance".
In the letter sent in January, he said: "Our analysis suggests that Swansea Bay is simply the wrong sized project in the wrong place and it is these constraints that are at the root of its very high cost of energy."
Ecotricity, based in Stroud in Gloucestershire, told BBC Wales it wrote to the UK government before it announced a review two weeks ago into the sector.
It believes tidal power can work at a lower price than the Â£168 per megawatt hour (MWh) across 35 years that is being discussed for Swansea Bay.
Founder Dale Vince said: "We were concerned that the UK government was being pushed into paying too high a price for tidal energy through the Swansea Bay scheme.
"That would be bad for renewable energy generally because it would reinforce the myth that green energy is expensive, and bad for tidal power specifically because it may never get off the ground."
Tidal Lagoon Power is now talking with the UK government about a lower price for their electricity generation over a longer, 90 year time frame, for Swansea.
But Ecotricity said it believes that price is too still too high.
The company will not say which sites it is looking at - including whether they would include Swansea - but acknowledges that the tidal range of the Severn Estuary is very attractive.
It will make a further announcement in the summer.
The review by the UK government - which is seeking "clarity" about the...

Summary: A competitor has emerged to challenge Tidal Lagoon Power (TLP) as the first to develop tidal energy in the UK.
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Article: Stormont's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says NI doctors tend to prescribe more expensive branded medicines.
It says costs for prescription drugs in the rest of the UK have fallen, but those in NI have increased.
An estimated £73m could have been saved if NI GPs prescribed medicines in line with colleagues in Wales, it said.
The report also said around £54m could be generated if average prescribing costs were reduced by 10%.
The PAC says GPs have gone some way to achieve savings in the past four years, but they had little incentive to consider costs as they fell to the Health and Social Care Board.
The committee has criticised the Department of Health for "refusing to accept" that it was possible to do cost comparisons with England, Scotland and Wales for drug costs, describing this as "disheartening".
It also says it is unacceptable that the department has failed to reach agreement with pharmacists on a revised contract for payments.
If this had been done, more than £45m would have been released for patient services, says the PAC.
It believes the system for reimbursing pharmacists is vulnerable to fraud, with the risk of cheaper generic drugs being dispensed when a doctor has actually prescribed a more expensive medicine.
The PAC says the department's decision not to use devolved powers to get information from medicines contractors is "flawed" and a solution should be reached urgently.
Primary care prescribing costs in Northern Ireland are £460m a year - around 10% of all health and social care expenditure.
Health Minister Jim Wells said his department would consider the PAC's findings in the context of "ongoing efforts to ensure that proper procedures continue to be applied to the management of public funds and in delivering improved health and social care".
"Making comparisons with different jurisdictions is not always straightforward and whilst I acknowledge that the report has identified that further efficiencies may be possible, I welcome the Audit Office's acknowledgement that through the efforts of...

Summary: Tens of millions of pounds could have been saved if Northern Ireland GPs had prescribed lower cost drugs, according to a new report.
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Article: Around 2,000 of the "brightest poorest" children miss out on places at "top universities", a study suggests.
Research into 520,984 children found even the highest performers lose out to less able, better-off pupils if they come from a more deprived background.
The study showed "how unfair" the former system was, the government said.
Academics at the Institute for Fiscal Studies looked at 8,000 children who had been high-achieving at 11 in primary school.
By the age of 16, these children were behind average achievers from wealthy families, said the research, published by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission.
Nine hundred of the 8,000 high-achieving children went on to an elite university, according to the work, which looked at a cohort of children born between 1991 and 1992.
A child's background was measured by the school type, free school meal status during secondary school and an index of socioeconomic status measuring the deprivation of their neighbourhood.
Three times the number of children who are least deprived reach level 3 in reading and maths at Key Stage 1 than the most deprived children.
The commission, chaired by former Labour MP Alan Milburn, said the research showed how important secondary school was if the government wants to boost the number of children from poorer backgrounds at elite universities.
It called for universities and policymakers to give students from poorer backgrounds advice to help them get into the top institutions.
Mr Milburn said Britain was "wasting young talent on an industrial scale".
He said the young high-achievers were getting lost in a "secondary school maze" that must be improved before social mobility could improve.
"For secondary schools the research is a wake-up call for them to do more to realise the potential of each of these students," he added.
A Department for Education spokesperson said: "This report, analysing the progress of pupils who largely left school before 2010, underlines just how unfair the education system was before this government's...

Summary: A child's background can be a bigger deciding factor than their academic ability in how likely they are to get into top universities, says research.
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Article: The report, for the Children's Play Policy Forum, found play improved children's physical and mental health, as well as their emotional well-being.
It also found playtime in the school playground could enhance academic skills and attitudes and behaviour.
Wednesday's report is published to coincide with the UK Playday.
Now in its 27th year, the aim of Playday is to give children, parents and communities  an opportunity to highlight the positive impact of play.
The report - the Play Return - reviews a wide range of research into the importance of play in supporting children develop essential skills and knowledge as they grow up.
Source: NHS Choices
Parents associated playing in playgrounds with family well-being and those who lived near playgrounds and visited them often reported higher levels of family happiness.
The study also said play and youth facilities in public spaces had led to reductions in levels of anti-social behaviour and vandalism.
The report also found families and communities benefited from play initiatives and wanted action to improve them.
It said play initiatives often generated high levels of volunteering support and a sense of community spirit.
The study found school playgrounds were one of the best ways of increasing children's levels of physical activity.
They were also linked to a range of improvements in academic skills, attitudes and behaviour, and to improved social skills, improved social relations between different ethnic groups, and better adjustment to school life.
"There is good evidence that making changes to school playgrounds leads to an increase in children's levels of physical activity," the report said.
"Various forms of intervention have been shown to give this outcome, including changes to marking, the addition of play equipment, making available games equipment (such as balls and bats) and the introduction of loose materials such as scrap and recycled office equipment."
Some studies suggested that children could be more physically active during free play than during...

Summary: Play helps boost children's language development, problem solving, risk management and independent learning skills, a study reaffirms.
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Article: Kate Beecroft (Douglas South), Alf Cannan (Ayre and Michael) and Howard Quayle (Middle) all received the necessary backing of at least two MHKs.
But Rushen MHK Laurence Skelly, who previously told the BBC he would be throwing his hat into the ring to replace Allan Bell, is not a contender.
The new chief minister will be elected by all 24 MHKs and the 11 members of the Legislative Council on 4 October.
That will take place in a full sitting of Tynwald.
A key test will come on Friday, however, when the three candidates will present a statement of their policies and field questions from their parliamentary colleagues.
Mr Bell, who has been chief minister since 2011, is retiring from Manx politics after 32 years as an MHK.
During that time he has held ministerial roles in tourism and leisure, industry, home affairs, the treasury and economic development.
Of the three candidates only Mr Quayle has held a minister role before - he is a former health and social care minister
All three candidates have five years' experience as an MHK.
Nationality: Manx
Age: 63
Election success: Douglas South 2011, 2016
Ministerial positions: None
Married with five children
Leader of the Liberal Vannin Party
Kate Beecroft's full Tynwald profile
Nationality: Manx
Age: 48
Election success: Michael 2011, Ayre and Michael 2016
Ministerial positions: None
Married with three children
Alf Cannan's full Tynwald profile
Nationality: Manx
Age: 49
Election success: Middle 2011, 2016
Ministerial positions: Health and Social Care
Married with three children
Howard Quayle's full Tynwald profile

Summary: Three members of the Manx parliament have been nominated for chief minister.
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Article: Toilet roll, chocolate biscuits, orange juice and antibacterial wipes were all on the list of shrinking items reported by Which?.
The consumer group argued that making products smaller was a "sneaky way" of increasing prices.
It is further evidence of a trend towards shrinking products.
In January Unilever revealed that a number of ice creams it makes would be getting smaller.
The latest list from Which? includes:
Most brands, responding to the Which? research, said it was up to supermarkets to set the price. However, they would not disclose if they had charged the stores a lower wholesale price.
"Shrinking products can be a sneaky way of increasing prices. We want manufacturers and supermarkets to be upfront about shrinking products so consumers are not misled," said Which? editor Richard Headland.

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When Lego originally decided not to sell the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei bricks with which to make a political statement, it really thought it was doing the right thing.

Article: The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) also said in the last quarter of 2015 more first-time buyers purchased properties in the region than at any time since 2006.
The organisation publishes data on behalf of banks and building societies.
It said 3,700 mortgages worth £380m were taken out in 2015's final quarter.
That is a rise of 3% on the same quarter in 2014 and 6% on the previous quarter, with first time buyers accounting for 2,100 of the loans.
Derek Wilson, the CML's Northern Ireland chair, said: "Home lending in Northern Ireland for the quarter rose to its highest level since mid-2007.
"It is welcome to see more first-time buyers purchasing their first home in this period than any other quarter since 2006."
The CML is forecasting the "upward trend" to continue in 2016, despite issues around a supply of new properties.
Meanwhile, the latest property survey by the University of Ulster has said 2015 saw the strongest year for price growth since the 2008 crash.
Average prices are up by 9% on 2014, "indicating that strong market conditions are prevailing."
Property prices are 40% below what they were at the peak of the market in late 2007.

Summary: Mortgage lending in Northern Ireland has hit its highest level since the property market was heading for its peak in 2007, according to new data.
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Article: Stuart Howatson used his fake position to agree to buy high-value security systems and get hotel accommodation.
Howatson, of Warwickshire, was jailed in 2010 for claiming to be a protection officer to the Queen, has admitted 12 counts of fraud and theft.
He is in a "troubled and anxious" state, Warwick Crown Court heard.
More on this story and others from Warwickshire.
Howatson, 37, of Fisher Road, Bishops Itchington, claimed he was the chief operations officer of the Mercedes F1 team to agree to buy security systems worth $1.1m, Â£224,000 and 23,904 Euros, the court heard.
He also got food and accommodation worth almost Â£2,800 at hotels in Kidderminster, Worcestershire and Leamington Spa, between January and September 2014, prosecutors said.
Judge Alan Parker was told Howatson was admitted to hospital after being bailed by the court on Thursday because there was insufficient time to deal with his case.
His sentencing is now due to take place next Friday.
Howatson, then living in Bewdley, Worcestershire, was jailed in 2010 for 20 months, after claiming he was a member of the Metropolitan Police and had served as an armed officer, dog handler and protection officer to the Queen. He had even misled his wife about his job.
Sentencing him over those offences, the judge at Hereford Crown Court described him as "a common trickster and conman".

Summary: A conman once jailed for posing as a royal protection police officer has failed to turn up for sentencing in court after claiming he was an F1 boss.
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Article: The update to a list of prohibited listings now includes "any USB-C (or USB Type-C) cable or adapter product that is not compliant with standard specifications".
Google developer Benson Leung noticed the change.
Some USB-C cables can damage devices or fail to charge them properly.
"Really great news, but we all have to continue to be vigilant and call out any bad products we find on Amazon and other stores (both online and brick and mortar) as we find them," wrote Mr Leung on Google+.
Amazon's rules, which refer to standards set by USB Implementers Forum, Inc., apply to any merchant selling items through its Amazon Sellers programme.
It's extremely unusual for modern hardware to be physically damaged due to connection issues, according to IHS analyst Ian Fogg.
"Fortunately, because few smartphones and laptops use the new USB-C design cables this risk of using cables which do not meet the USB-C specification, and which cause damage, has been limited to a relatively small number of consumers," he told the BBC.
"By acting now, Amazon greatly reduces the risk of large scale equipment failures as USB-C becomes the most popular connection type on new smartphones and laptops."
The first computers, smartphones and tablets to feature USB-C ports were released last year.
A list of compliant USB-C cables has been published by USB Implementers Forum, Inc.

Summary: Amazon has updated its rules governing the sale of USB-C cables in the US, saying only fully compliant products will be stocked on the site.
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Article: Toon Vanparys sounds like the chief executive of any ambitious technology start-up.
He gets up early, works hard, and has bundles of enthusiasm.  Essential requirements in any business, where it's not enough just to have an innovative idea.
You need a plan to scale it up, and the will to grow it quickly.  All of which sounds terribly tiring, and goes a long way to explaining why the popular conception of today's entrepreneur is someone in their 20s or 30s.
At 58, Mr Vanparys, the boss of Sentiance, a Belgium-based start-up, is old enough to be many a start-up bosses' dad.
As he points out, with a smile: "It's pretty rare if I'm not the eldest one around the table at internal or client meetings."
Sentiance helps marketers make sense of what they call the different personal time zones each of us inhabits.
If you're someone who has a takeaway coffee on the way to work between 9.30am and 10am every weekday, for instance, then 9.30am would be when the coffee shop you are passing would send you a message with an offer.
While that may sound rather Orwellian, Sentiance says that consumers opt in to sharing their data on various mobile phone apps.
As a result, Sentiance can collect up to half a million points of data on a consumer each day, and use that to build a profile or "personal dashboard" for marketers to personalise their targeting.
So has Antwerp-based Sentiance discovered the future of marketing via mobile phone data?
"It's essentially a really new thing," says mobile analyst Ian Maude of Enders Analysis. "It's made possible by us having smart-phones.
"It's very competitive, Sentiance have an interesting take on it, but they're not the only game in town."
Technology investor Eileen Burbidge of Passion Capital in London says: "Sentiance need to deliver actionable insights and not just more data.
"If it can say this offer is more interesting, and there's more take up as a result, then that's really interesting."
Sentiance is the latest in a string of start-ups Mr Vanparys has run since the 1980s.
"Of course...

Summary: "My morning routine starts at 5.45am... my personal dashboard says I'm a business traveller, a heavy commuter, a workaholic."
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Article: The Liberal Democrats on the London Assembly said diesels should be banned or face stringent tests to stop the city's air becoming more polluted.
But a spokesman for the mayor said it would have a "serious economic impact".
In September, VW admitted installing software to cheat emissions tests in 11 million of its diesel cars worldwide.
Previously the London Assembly environment committee said diesel vehicles accounted for 40% of the capital's air pollution with Public Health England suggesting 3,000 people die annually as a result of it.
In 2020 an Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ)  will be introduced restricting vehicle access to London's congestion zone
The cleanest vehicles will be allowed to travel for free, while cars, vans and motorbikes will be charged Â£12.50 and HGVs and lorry will have to pay Â£100.
But the Liberal Democrats fear the unreliability of emissions tests mean even those vehicles classed as "clean" could actually be polluters.
Lib Dem Stephen Knight said: "The Volkswagen scandal highlighted this more than anything else, so we need to make measures now to ensure that the only vehicles entering the ULEZ in 2020 are absolutely either zero emission or ultra low emission vehicles.
"The simple answer to that is to say we won't allow diesel vehicles into the zone. "
But the city's deputy mayor for environment, Matthew Pencharz, said: "To say to every van owner and to every HGV driver 'I'm sorry you can no longer drive into central London' may have a serious economic impact."
The experts, also, say the problem goes beyond the VW scandal.
Dr Gary Fuller from King's College London said: "The problem's to do with what comes out of the back of the car when they're driven. In the real world it isn't just confined to VW.
"We know all the most modern vehicles are emitting somewhere between six and seven times the amount of nitrogen dioxide pollution...so we hope that cars get better as the fleet is renewed, but we have to wait and see."

Summary: There are calls for London to ban diesel vehicles from the capital following the Volkswagen (VW) emissions scandal.
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Article: Its ethical policy states that any artwork using Lego products should not "contain any political, religious, racist, obscene or defaming statements".
However, the Danish company was widely attacked by commentators and accused of not wishing to annoy the Chinese government, which Ai regularly criticises.
Lego has now relented and on Wednesday announced that it had changed its policy.
It will no longer ask customers what they want to use the bricks for, but requests that they make clear that the company does not support or endorse their projects, if exhibited in public.
But should a business be picky about whom it sells to?
The problem is that selling as much as you can to anyone and everyone can have unintended consequences.
Some customers can turn into your competitors.
LVMH, which owns luxury brands from Christian Dior clothing to Dom Perignon champagne, has had its Chinese business undermined by bulk sales ferried into the country by so-called "daigou" agents.
Taxes and currency differences make luxury goods far more expensive in China. Some analysts estimated that by mid-2015, Chinese prices were 60% higher than those in Europe.
The daigou agents, many of them students making extra cash to finance their overseas studies, buy up luxury products in bulk in Europe and Hong Kong and sell them on at home. It is sometimes known as parallel trading.
So LVMH started to watch its customers more closely.
Speaking on a conference call earlier last year, Jean-Jacques Guiony, chief financial officer at LVMH, said: "We've placed strict retail restrictions for the amount of products that people can buy.
"But, when you see someone in a store, you don't know whether they are buying handbags for themselves or to sell them on to the market in China. We are trying to make sure we are not competing with our own products in the China market, but our actions are not entirely bullet-proof."
Other companies have found it easier to try to equalise prices. The fashion house Chanel raised its European prices by 20% and cut them in...

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Christmas swims are expected to attract bumper numbers this year due to milder winter weather and growing popularity for the craze.

Article: All too often here, when the land is baked dry, the winds can strip away an inch of precious topsoil in as little as 24 hours, soil that has taken centuries to form.
In the course of the most arid years, each acre of farmland can lose up to 70 tons of soil and then, wherever the dust is dumped, it can smother the crops it lands on.
In the Oklahoma Panhandle, the most remote area of the state, recent rainfall has been so meagre that fears have been kindled of a return to the apocalyptic "Dust Bowl" scenes of the 1930s.
Back then, agriculture collapsed and thousands of people left.
A survivor of the 1930s, 101-year-old Millard Fowler, who recalls sheltering from the "rolling black clouds" of the Dust Bowl, has seen similar conditions this year.
"Somebody asked me the other day if dust storms would happen again and I said 'they already have' - we've had some pretty good dust storms this spring," he said.
One of the worst was filmed by a local woman, LeLayne Tapp, and the video showed dust engulfing the community of Boise City, turning the sunlight orange and making roads impassable.
A farmer, JB Stewart, surveying one of his ruined wheat fields, told me that he had seen many droughts in his lifetime but the current one was "insane" because it has lasted so long.
"I've seen droughts over 50 years but nothing as devastating as what we've had in the last two to three years - I've never heard of anything like what we've had," he said.
His son Jarod, the fifth generation of the family to farm this land, said: "We've lost the crop and we've now got to figure out how to stop the soil from blowing.
"I'd compare it to the death of a loved one - you nurture this crop and invest in it and then you watch that crop die, it's devastating."
Across many parts of the state, the drought is acknowledged to have started three-and-a-half years ago with between 30-50 inches less rainfall than on average over that time.
Gary McManus, the Oklahoma State Climatologist, told the BBC: "The drought right now is the worst in decades...

Summary: A menacing cloud of dust swirling above a parched field in Oklahoma is a disturbing reminder of the power of drought.
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Article: Yet for supermarket chain Sainsbury's could it actually prove true?
Its original declaration of interest in Argos and Homebase owner Home Retail Group stunned the City, with many retail experts and investors questioning the logic of such a deal.
But Sainsbury's, which has already been trialling Argos concessions in 10 of its stores, has now offered £1.3bn to win control of Home Retail Group.
It argues buying the group would help it to boost sales growth, improve its delivery networks, and mean they could sell their products to each other's customers.
The supermarket says the leases of around half of Argos' 734 stores across the UK are due for renewal over the next four to five years, and it is believed to have identified between 150 and 200 stores which it could shut and move into a nearby Sainsbury's store.
But analysts have suggested the greatest prize of all could be Argos' delivery network. The chain may be best known for its hefty, encyclopedia-like catalogues - the basis of many a child's Christmas wishlist - but it has been steadily replacing the ring-bound catalogues and iconic blue pens with iPad-style terminals.
The shift is part of Argos' mission announced in late-2012 to reinvent itself as "a digital retail leader".
Order something from Argos before 6pm and you can have it by 10pm that same day any day of the week, for £3.95.
It's basically an "Amazon with stores" as investment bank Morgan Stanley puts it.
James Walton, chief economist at food and grocery research charity IGD, says for that reason Sainsbury's move may just make sense because it will help it to fulfil the "I want it now" demand from shoppers, what he calls "the fast order fulfilment service aspect of online".
"It was one of those announcements that you thought afterwards 'of course that's going to happen'," he says.
"It's all about serving the customer where they want it, when they want. Shopping your way anyway without any compromise. It's a huge logistical challenge which raises the bar as far as shoppers are concerned," he...

Summary: "The laminated book of dreams," was how comedian Bill Bailey once jokingly described the plastic-coated Argos catalogue.
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Article: The pictures include one of Lord Attenborough and his brother Sir David performing as children.
The director and actor's life and work has also been celebrated at the University of Sussex's Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts.
Lord Attenborough died aged 90 on 24 August last year.
He was the University of Sussex's chancellor from 1998 until 2008.
The university's arts centre has had a multi-million pound makeover and been renamed after Lord Attenborough.
A 3D montage of his most famous roles was projected onto the art centre's walls at the weekend, including Brighton Rock, Jurassic Park, Gandhi and Chaplin.
Lord Attenborough's son, Michael Attenborough, said the film montage represented "the multi-faceted personality that my dad was".
"The moment you tried to pin him down and define him, he'd wriggle away and be somebody else," he said.
"Of course he acted in over 100 films and directed or produced a huge number, but he didn't see art as something isolated from the rest of life and he learned from his parents that a full involvement in the wide world was every bit as important."
University of Sussex vice-chancellor Professor Michael Farthing said in his time as university chancellor Lord Attenborough became very much part of the university community.
"We fondly remember Richard for his warmth, humanity, humour and vitality," he said.
"As our chancellor he brought an element of real celebration to our graduation ceremonies and his regular visits to campus were always a big occasion.
"He had a gift for making any staff or student that he met, feel very special."

Summary: The anniversary of Richard Attenborough's death has been commemorated with the release of previously unseen family photos.
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Article: Last October, Ai accused Lego of censorship when it refused to sell its bricks directly to him.
On Tuesday Lego said customers should instead make clear that the company does not endorse works shown in public.
Ai, a leading artist, is also known for criticism of the Chinese government.
He said Lego's U-turn would encourage people to use the product to express themselves.
"It is just a toy, but every toy reflects the company's understanding about what kind of future we are in and how we encourage our children to understand essential values," he said.
When Lego first refused to sell a bulk order of plastic bricks to Ai Weiwei in September, he's thought to have kept the news to himself. But a few weeks later, the announcement that a new Legoland theme park would open in Shanghai led the artist to reveal Lego's decision to stay away from projects that had a "political agenda".
It was a surprising decision by Lego. After all, Ai Weiwei had used Lego before. He created a series of portraits of political dissidents that appeared at an exhibition in Alcatraz prison in 2014.
Back in October, the artist tied Lego's financial interests in China with its decision to refuse his order. His accusation has some merit: KIRKBI, the private Danish company that owns the Lego brand also owns a significant amount of shares in Merlin Entertainment, the British company that operates Legolands around the world.
China is Lego's fastest growing market and the company wouldn't want to irritate Beijing. However, as Lego might attest, few would want to battle the feisty Ai Weiwei.
The artist added that Lego "should not worry too much" over possible fears that its use in his art could affect a proposed Lego theme park in Shanghai.
In a statement posted on its website on Tuesday, Lego said it used to ask customers ordering bulk purchases for the "thematic purpose" of their project, as it did not want to "actively support or endorse specific agendas".
"However, those guidelines could result in misunderstandings or be perceived as...

Summary: Lego's decision to stop asking bulk customers what they want to do with the bricks is a "victory for freedom of speech", Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has told the BBC.
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Article: Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis said they had registered the new event's name, which will be The Glastonbury Festival team present the Variety Bazaar.
The organisers say it will be separate from Glastonbury and will be at a different location.
There was no indication from Mr Eavis if this affects Glastonbury's future.
However, fellow organiser Emily Eavis tried to clarify the situation by tweeting: "We're still planning an event in the future at a different location - which we are calling Variety Bazaar. But Glastonbury Festival will always be called Glastonbury and will remain at Worthy Farm."
Mr Eavis revealed the name to Paul Cannon of Glastonbury FM and admitted he was taking "a huge risk".
"I've been a risk taker all my life. I mean 47 years of taking risks really and so far touch wood, I haven't come unstuck so far. This might be one risk too far, I don't know," he said.
There has been speculation about the future of the festival for some time.
Glastonbury will not take place in 2018 to give the Worthy Farm land a chance to recover but Mr Eavis had said he was keen to fill that year with "something special" because at his age of 81 he did not want to miss out on any festivals.
In June it was revealed the organisers had been in talks with the owners of the nearby Longleat estate to host a festival in 2018 or 2019, but in September organisers said they would not hold an event at another site next year.
In a statement on the Glastonbury Festival website, the organisers said: "We will be taking our next fallow year in 2018, in order to give the farm, the village and the festival team the traditional year off.
"There are no plans to hold an event at another location in 2018."
In December Mr Eavis said the 2019 Glastonbury Festival could be held at a site 100 miles away from Worthy Farm, "towards the Midlands" to help protect the main site.
He said the new site would be used every five years to help the land at his farm recover.

Summary: A new festival from the organisers of the Glastonbury Festival will be called Variety Bazaar.
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Article: Interest and participation has increased hugely in recent years across the country, according to the Outdoor Swimming Society.
Eighty outdoor swims are being held over the 2015 season, with most taking place on Christmas or Boxing Day.
Safety advice has been issued by the society for the first time.
Spokesman Will Cairns said it was expecting more people to take part this year in the sea, rivers and lidos.
"What's interesting this year is the temperature of the water.
"It's three to four degrees higher in certain places than it was this time last year. Temperature does play a part."
He said overall membership numbers increased from 15,000 last year to 25,000 this year and that 40% of members now actively swim throughout the winter.
"The Christmas swims very much appeal to the British psyche of doing something different, something slightly weird and wonderful," he said.
- Do not take part if you are pregnant, suffer from asthma or have a heart condition.
- Get warm before the swim and remove your warm clothing at the last minute.
- Go in feet first, not head first, and control your breathing before immersing your shoulders.
- Have low expectations of how long you will be in for or how far you will go
- Dry off and put on layers within ten minutes of getting out
Charlie Hoskin, 33, from Cornwall, described herself as a "granite-fleshed cold-water bathing enthusiast" who always swims in the sea at Christmas.
"The sensation is truly electrifying. It is a great way to test your constitution and boost your immune system," she said.
Daniel Fox has been photographing the Exmouth Christmas Day swim since 2007.
"Its getting massively busy now and the atmosphere is amazing. Costumes are getting wilder and there are more and more people taking part," he said.
"There are about 1,000 swimmers, thousands of spectators and tens of thousands watch by webcam too so we have a worldwide audience".
Brian Thomas from the Serpentine Swimming Club in London said: "We have seen a huge growth in numbers over the past five years".
He...

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